List of changes

1. Added Portuguese, changed Spanish (thanks to PRINDAISYNHA)

2. Fixed widgets on the training level

3. Changed the logic of monsters in the swamp, leading to a game error

Thanks to everyone who helped find errors in the game!!!

On August 15, we’re holding a special Night Striker-focused event at the upper floors of Akihabara Hey. The venue will feature merchandise sales—including limited and early-release items—an actual arcade Night Striker cabinet on display, and a hands-on play area.

In the morning, we’ll host the “Night Striker Special Operations Unit Skill Competition in Hey” competition. Players will take on designated stages, competing for the highest Running Point score (displayed on the game’s gadget) upon clearing the stage. Entry is limited to 20 participants; if applications exceed this number, players will be selected by lottery. Those wishing to participate should register at the Hey 2F counter between 10:00 and 10:15 on the day of the event.

At 15:00, we present the “Monthly ZUNTATA NIGHT – Special Summer 2025 Edition in Akihabara Hey”. Guests will include development staff from Operation Night Strikers and Night Striker GEAR, showcasing live gameplay and delivering talks from the sound creators. The session will also be streamed live on YouTube—so if you can’t attend in person, join us online!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqSo6EPjoL8(Stream available in Japanese only.)

For full details, please check the event announcement on the official TAITO website.

Night Strikers Day – Event Overview
Date & Time: Friday, August 15, 2025 – 10:00–17:00 (JST)

Venue: Upper Special Venue (5F) of Akihabara “Hey”
Hirose HQ Building, 1–10–5 Sotokanda, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
Free Admission

“Monthly ZUNTATA NIGHT – Special Edition”
Streaming Time: Friday, August 15, 2025 – 15:00–16:00 (planned)
Streaming Platform: YouTube – “ZUNTATA CHANNEL”
Hosts: Katsuhisa Ishikawa (ZUNTATA), Yuichi Toyama (TAITO)
Guests: Naoki Horii (M2), hibana Yokeru (M2), Yukiharu Urita (Night Striker GEAR composer)
(All names in given order; honorifics omitted.)

Doors open around 14:30. Admission may be restricted if the venue reaches capacity.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3099790/Operation_Night_Strikers/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3290390/GEAR/

"Operation Night Strikers" official site

https://www.taito.co.jp/opstrikers

"Night Strikers Gear" official site

https://m2stg.com/night-striker-gear/

Gameplay improvements & content updates

• Say hello to our brand new character JDJ

• Updated character selection screen including new portraits

• Various ghost fixes including avoiding the player's storage being cluttered with ghost data

• Auto teleport player back on track if out-of-the-world position detected

• Reduced pickup respawn timer down to 1 second

• Various Multiplayer fixes

• Small weapon fix hopefully preventing shield double hitting

• Tweak to how drift steering extents are set up, now set to prevent perfectly straight drifting

• Intended fix for Geyser sloped wall collision

CPU Updates

• Various race result screen updates including new character portraits and unique names for CPU opponents

• CPUs now use items smarter and more efficiently, be aware of torpedos!

• Some more CPU drifting logic work, so they can execute nice long drifts

• Background work for implementing different bot types in the future

• Improved dynamic branching so CPUs take different routes

• CPU racers can now safely use jump-drift just as regular players

Environmental updates

• Updated skybox adding the sun

• Updated material assignment inside of dropship water

• Various experimental tweaks to water appearance

• Various visual improvements to the mud pools

• Updated hollow tree

More improvements and fixes

• Various animation fixed

• Boost VFX is now transparent as to not get picked up in screen space water reflection

• Small fix for weapon explosions

• Minor bug fixes

Greetings, everyone!

Carnival Hunt is once again opening its servers for another round of Сlosed Alpha Testing.

⚠️The next Alpha Test will take place from August 18, 08:00 (UTC) to August 25, 08:00 (UTC)!

Unfortunately, because of the problems encountered in the last tests with some players' misbehavior, we have adapted our roadmap and introduced the following features:

Ranking System

• It will work in a compromise mode to maintain matchmaking speed and separate experienced players from newbies. This will allow everyone to enjoy the game to the fullest.

Reporting System

• Will allow players to send reports on game rule breakers. The system is still in development, but already accounts for abuse of the system. Each player will have a limited number of reports they can send, to reduce the amount of indiscriminate and frivolous reports.

Text Chat Filter and Player Muting

• You can now turn on and off the text chat filter and mute players who are bothering you. You can mute a player so that the message is not displayed in the text chat, to not hear the proximity chat, and also to not see the ping of the player.

Blacklist system

• Allows you to add players to a blacklist. Players added to the blacklist will no longer be caught by you in the lobby.

Penalty System

• Previously, any player, if they didn't like something, could just end the game and ruin the game for others. Now there will be a penalty to the search time, which accumulates with each following early exit from the game. Bunnies can only leave the game if:

  1. The bunny has been killed.

  2. The bunny is fully discharged and at least 10 minutes of gameplay have passed.

In addition to social systems, we will be experimenting with speeding up gameplay and have therefore made the following changes:

• Bunny and Magician movement speed increased by ~15%.

• The speed of the bunny getting up has been sped up significantly to keep things dynamic,

• Some "slow" animations have been sped up by 20%,

• Game session time will now be 25 min main session and 5 min end phase.

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To receive more information about the game - Join us on Discord!

Daltos & Lolip from the Yogscast team will be playing three games during a special 3-hour slot — and one of them is none other than your favorite upcoming pirate adventure!

Set sail with us on the Tiny Teams channel and watch as these two take the helm. Will they prove themselves to be cunning captains or end up at the bottom of the briny deep? There’s only one way to find out!

📅 When:

• 9:00 PM – 12:00 AM CET

• 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM PST

Don’t miss this chance!

Hi everyone,

A huge thank you for all the incredible support and love you've shown for FISHTOPIA. Since the game's launch, we've been carefully reading all of your valuable feedback and suggestions. Your passion is the main driving force behind our work to improve the game and plan for its future! So, to give you a better idea of what's next, we're excited to share our upcoming updates and our long-term plans.

\[New Feature] Card Gifting

Players will be able to select any adult creature from their inventory and, at the cost of resetting its EXP, create a special copy that can be gifted to a friend.

\[New Feature] Creature Storage

We are adding a storage space where you can temporarily keep creatures that cannot be used yet (e.g. those from a higher-level area than you have unlocked) or rare creatures you don't wish to sell.

\[Improvement] Daily Income Projection

To help you better manage your resources, the main interface will display a projection of the estimated daily income of gold and crystals.

\[Improvement] Wallpaper Mode

Creatures in Wallpaper Mode will automatically use their skills at a low frequency.

\[New Content] Final Hidden Storyline

The final chapter of the hidden storyline will soon be available to be discovered.

\[New Content] Full Collection Rewards

For players who have completed the entire creature collection, we will unlock three currently unavailable hidden scenes, one "??? Scene" and their exclusive background music.

\[Bonus] Free Original Soundtrack (OST)

As a special thank you for all your support, once the game sells over 10,000 copies, we will produce a complete Original Soundtrack (OST) and release it for free to all players who own the game.

Wallpaper Mode Compatibility: We will work on fixing display issues in Wallpaper Mode, such as black bars or incorrect scaling on some dual-monitor setups and non-standard resolution displays.

Broader Platform Support: We plan to add support for the Steam Deck and controllers.

Physical Merchandise: We are planning to create physical versions of FISHTOPIA cards and Creaturepedia artbooks.

Thanks again for your support!

As it turns out, the day 1 patch is already live! Don't worry if you just downloaded the game, it was updated before you even bought it so you shouldn't have to worry about downloading an update.

Here are the patch notes:

Hey all👋 Long story short Mail it to the king is now The You Quiz!

We felt the old name didn't reflect what the game was really about, so we changed it ahead of our upcoming demo release. We're super excited about these changes and we feel the game has never looked so good!

We also revamped the characters to be more colorful and expressive! Which means that we sadly had to retire our old ones, so we say goodbye to the granny, dog and cloud 😢

We're getting very close to demo release and we're super excited for you to try it out and tell us what you think. In the meantime you can already play an early version of the demo by registering for the playtest, it will help us iron out bugs in the demo before public release, and you get a glimpse of the development of the game.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3669740/The_You_Quiz/#game_area_purchase

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1910090/Towa_and_the_Guardians_of_the_Sacred_Tree/